Wisdom Quotes

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.